Higher Education Futures?

Futures thinking for academic librarians: Higher education in 2025

Executive Summary For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate action now. This document presents 26 possible scenarios based on an implications assessment of current trends, which ma...

Costa Rica’s Secondary Education Futures

The Development of the Higher Education Sector of Vietnam within the Globalization Discourse: Using Futures Methodologies

Journal of Futures Studies, November 2006, 11(2): 35 60 It is widely accepted in the literature dealing with social and educational change, that the world is experiencing an information and technology revolution. Globally, more and more people are entering a "post-industrial, globalized, pan-capitalist" world and a "post-information" and "networked" society (Milojevic 2002: 166). Rapid changes ...

Quality assurance in higher education: which pasts to build on, what futures to contemplate?

Is there anything new that is intellectually engaging, politically instructive or educationally useful to say about the last two decades of quality assurance in higher education or to insert into quality assurance systems in their multiplying manifestations around the world? A glance at the literature on quality assurance indicates that its policy hawks and doves; its enthusiasts, flag-bearers ...

Universities and the emerging new players: building futures for higher education

Universities are long-established organisations, and although they have reinvented themselves several times, major reforms are needed again, underpinned by systematic prospective analyses. A novel method is needed to take into account the wide-ranging and complex factors, shaping the future of the higher education system. ‘Futures’ should be devised in a multi-level structure as the bulk of tre...